Thompson v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably 143 Ga. App. 74 - Vaughn & Co. v. Saul (1977), Ogden Equipment Co. v. Talmadge Farms, Inc. (1974)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 105 Ga. App. 125 - Davis v. Holt · Young v. Morrison · 102 Ga. App. 559 - Smith v. Continental Casualty Co. · 105 Ga. App. 273 - Hodges v. Fidelity & Casualty Company · 119 Ga. App. 111 - Jackson v. U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since 1966, Georgia law has provided: “A court of this State may exercise personal jurisdiction over any nonresident, or his executor or administrator, as to a cause of action arising from any of the acts, omissions, ownership, use or possession enumerated in this section, in the same manner as if he were a resident of the State, if in person or through an agent, he: . (a) Transacts any business within this State; or (b) Commits a tortious act or omission within this State . . . .” Ga.Code Ann. § 24-113.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact ...” (Emphasis supplied.) In Union Circulation Co., we held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.